TY - JOUR AU - Ender, Morten AU - Gibson, Ariel PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - INVISIBLE INSTITUTION: THE MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE INVISIBLE INSTITUTION: THE MILITARY, WAR, AND PEACE JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/invisible-institution-the-military-war-and-peace SP - AB - War, peace, and the military are relatively invisible in introductory sociology textbooksimmediately prior to September 11, 2001. Assuming a civilian knowledge gap on matters military, this study reports on the content of introductory textbooks for core sociological knowledge on war, peace, and the military. A content analysis exposes a variety of common concepts (N=167), primary and secondary references (N=385), and photographs (N=146) in 31 introductory sociology texts. Four thematic findings are discussed - marginalization of peace, war, and military topics in textbooks; lack of conceptual and reference continuity across textbooks; prominence of photographs of peace, war, and the military themes; and perpetuation of a civil-military knowledge gap in American society through undergraduate sociology. ER -